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POLL: How much are you walking away from? [#permalink]
02 Jan 2010, 16:11

As we all begin to hand in our resignation letters and notify our employers that we're leaving, I just thought I'd take a quick poll to see how much everyone is walking away from?

Guidelines:

1) Please only reply if you are pursuing a full-time MBA. No part-time or exec MBAs please.2) Please include annual base salary and bonus/incentive compensation for 2009.3) This is totally anonymous. There is no need to make a post to this thread. Just reply to the poll.

Nice idea, eminent; I've been curious about this too. Should those of us who have not yet received acceptances participate as well? After all, our current salaries represent how much we would be willing to walk away from if we get accepted this spring.

Nice idea, eminent; I've been curious about this too. Should those of us who have not yet received acceptances participate as well? After all, our current salaries represent how much we would be willing to walk away from if we get accepted this spring.

Thanks to everyone who responded. We ended up with a really nice sample size. I can't say that I'm surprised -- these figures seem to closely mirror the pre-MBA median comp figures that Forbes or BusinessWeek publsh.

In any case, it definitely upset me when I figured out that I won't be making any more money in salary the first couple of years after b-school than I am right now but while applying I reminded myself that the salary progression I would see after moving into finance would be significantly better than my salary as a federal attorney. My upward mobility has pretty much flattened out here since I reached the highest non-supervisory grade at my agency. Plus, there's the additional benefit of actually being passionate about my job, upward career mobility and job flexibility